-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The Miami Heat went cold after 27 consecutive winning games and failed to match the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers ' winning streak of 33 . The Heat joins many others in and out of sports that have come oh-so-close to the record books .

Here are a few examples :

- The New England Patriots fell painfully short of being the second NFL team to ever go through a whole season without losing . The Pats were just two minutes away from winning the Super Bowl in 2008 when New York Giants pulled a miraculous comeback . If the Pats won that game , they would have joined the 1972 Dolphins as the only NFL teams to have a perfect season .

- Tiger Woods won seven consecutive PGA Tour events from July 2006 to January 2007 . He botched a chance to win an eighth event when he missed a short birdie putt that would have clinched a victory in the third round of a match play tournament . Byron Nelson won 11 straight Tour tournaments in 1945 .

- This year , the Dow Jones Industrial Average went on a winning streak over 10 consecutive trading sessions , which ended on March 15 when the Dow fell roughly 25 points or 0.2 % . It came close to the longest win streak on record of 13 trading sessions in 1987 .

- Pete Rose had a 44-game hit streak in 1978 that ended against the Atlanta Braves and reliever Gene Garber . After the game , Rose , still 12 games away from Joe DiMaggio 's major-league record , fumed that Garber did n't throw fastballs to strike him out . Garber got him out with a slow changeup .

- The New York Mets ' R.A. Dickey took a run in 2012 at Orel Hershiser 's record -LRB- set in 1988 -RRB- of 59 consecutive scoreless innings . Dickey threw 44.2 consecutive scoreless innings from May 22 to June 24 last year .

- The Detroit Lions made a run during the 2008-2009 season at the record for most consecutive games lost . They lost 19 , finishing second behind the 1976-1977 Tampa Bay Buccaneers who lost 26 consecutive games in a row .

- Speaking of infamous records , the Charlotte Bobcats came within three games of tying the NBA record of most losses in a row . The embattled team lost 23 straight games at the end of the 2011-12 season . They began the 2012-13 season with a victory over the Indiana Pacers , leaving them three losses short of the 2010-11 Cleveland Cavaliers .

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The Heat won 27 games in a row

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The team from Miami lost this week to Chicago

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The Heat were vying to beat Los Angeles Lakers ' unbroken winning streak of 33